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Venereal disease regulations prevented clinics from sharing patient information with the wider NHS without the patient’s explicit consent, and patient advocacy groups warn this could lead patients to delay check-ups.

Yusef Azad, director of policy and campaigns at the National Aids Trust, told the paper: ‘People don’t want their local hospital A&E to know they got gonorrhoea on holiday last year, or their family doctor to know about their recent fling.’

Former Government advisor and chair of human nutrition at Glasgow University, Professor Mike Lean said the pie - which sells for a princely £1.50 and contains bacon, sausage, black pudding and beans, with an egg on top – ‘should never be anywhere near a hospital.’